Night Terror
Country
Austria-HungaryCopyright
1914Production year
1914Premiere
25 December 1914Runtime
19 minDirector
Jan A. PaloušCategory
filmGenre
comedyTypology
featuretheatrical distributionshortOriginal title
Noční děsCzech title
Noční děsEnglish title
Night TerrorSynopsis
The name day of Mr. Fiala: The husband catches his wife with his friend. In the ensuing argument the husband is insulted and attacked. The lovers believe him to be dead and carry him from the house out into the street. Drunkards find him there and they think they have have killed him. They stand him against a wall with his face in the window of a miser who has just been counting his money. The miser punches the man in the head and takes the "corpse" to river and throws it in. The police arrest him. Suffering from pangs of conscience he confesses to the commissioner about his actions. He is imprisoned. When the drunkards read the story in the newspaper they go themselves to confess to the murder in order to protect the innocent. Next, the unfaithful wife and her lover appear at the commissioner's office to confess. They tell the commisioner what really happened. The allegedly dead Mr. Fiala regains consciousness in the water and is lying on the river bank. He finds out in the newspaper that his wife is in prison. Immediately he runs to the commissioner's office and there he becones reconciled with his wife and friend.
Note
The screenstory of the film was a real night story that František Langer experienced on a Prague street with the writer Jaroslav Hašek. The film was made with actors from the Vinohrady theatre. It was the first film which was shot that received a sunbstantial mention in the newspapers. During the filming of the scene on the Emperor František I. bridge (now Legion bridge) in which Alois Charvát waves and shouts that he is not dead, the actor was arrested by the police and police counsellor Viktor Chum, taken to the commissioner´s office and fined 50 crowns. The news story was a good advertissement for the film release in the cinema.
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Cast
Alois Charvát
soukromník Fiala
Růžena Šlemrová
Fialová, Fialova žena
Richard Menšík
Zoubek, přítel Fialových
Bohuš Zakopal
lakomec
Václav Vydra st.
opilec
Karel Faltys
opilec
František Havel
policejní komisař
Jan Zelenka
strážník
Václav Zatíranda
strážník
Vladimír Marek
soudní sluha
Eduard Pražský
rybář na loďce
Crew and creators
Director
Screenstory
Screenplay
Director of Photography
Production Designer
Production info
Original Title
Noční děs
Czech Title
Noční děs
English Title
Night Terror
Category
film
Typology
featuretheatrical distribution
Genre
comedy
Origin country
Austria-Hungary
Copyright
1914
Production Year
1914
Production specifications
projection approval 1963
withdrawal from distribution 31 December 1991
Premiere
premiere 25 December 1914 (kina Minuta a Lido bio, Praha)
renewed premiere 1 October 1963 /unsuitable for youths/ (Filmové kluby)
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
ASUM (původní 1914), Ústřední půjčovna filmů (obnovená 1963)
Technical info
Duration typology
short film
Duration in minutes
19 min
Distribution carrier
35mm
Aspect ratio
1:1,33
Colour
tinting, black & white
Sound
silent
Versions
Czech
Dialogue languages
without dialogue
Subtitles languages
without subtitles
Intertitles languages
Czech
Opening/End credits languages
Czech
